Re: CVS access or Project Progress

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:23:48PM +0000, Stéphane Bisinger wrote:
> First of all there are bugfixes, which include
> protocol libraries updates and utf-8 support. These
> are the top priorities.
> Then, we'll need to rewrite and refactor a lot of
> code, many components are dated back to 2003 and do
> really need some love and care.
> After this we may think about:
>  - Localization: there is already some support
> (translations), but for sure there is plenty of work
> to be done there
>  - Multiple accounts per protocol
>  - Protocol abstraction, so we can add any protocol by
> just writing a wrapper around it using a common
> interface.
>  - UI separation, so that we could plug any other
> frontend to the centericq backend.

I don't want to discourage anybody, but have you considered that some of
the time people would spend on these enhancements might be better put
toward a centericq-like interface for gaim 2.0? The backend already
provides most of what you describe (plus their AIM protocol plugin uses
oscar instead of toc), but when I built 2.0beta5 I found gaim-text to
have some very serious issues that made it unusable. CenterICQ is in the
opposite condition, the interface is pretty usable but underneath it's
suffering more than a little bit-rot.

-- 
Michael Heironimus
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